Project description
Objective robot testing using metrological principles
Robotics has many exciting applications in a number of sectors, including healthcare, agri-food, agile manufacturing, and inspection and maintenance. With these four sectors in mind, the EU-funded METRICS project aims to organise competitions as reproducible and objective evaluation campaigns. Each competition will consist of three field and three data-based evaluation campaigns. In order to achieve rigorous and unbiased assessments of different competing robots, the project will develop an evaluation framework using metrological principles. These competitions will contribute to structure the European robotics and artificial intelligence community in a sustainable way around the four application areas.
Objective
The METRICS project will organise challenge-led robotics competitions inThe METRICS project will organise challenge-led robotics competitions in the four Priority Areas (PAs) identified in the topic ICT-09-2019-2020: Healthcare, Inspection and Maintenance, Agri-Food, and Agile Production. METRICS is designed to organise competitions as reproducible and objective evaluation campaigns and aims to structure in a sustainable way the European robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) community around the four PAs.
In order to assess the reliability of the different competing robots in a rigorous and unbiased way, METRICS will develop an evaluation framework based on metrological principles. For each competition, METRICS will organize 3 field evaluation campaigns (in physical environments) and 3 cascade evaluation campaigns (on datasets) to engage with the AI community.
The competitions are designed to draw attention from the entire economic sector, the academia and Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH) in Europe, while stimulating public engagement. Indeed, METRICS will implement a dedicated strategy to mobilize external partners and sponsors to support the organization of the competitions or ensure their industrial relevance. A specific outreach strategy will be developed to promote robotics systems towards the general public and ensure the compliance of robots with ethical and socio-economic principles.
METRICS brings together 17 partners, all expert in robotics competition and metrology, with highly complementary testing facilities and networks in the four PAs. This experienced consortium will ensure that METRICS benefits from the feedback of past and current competitions and projects and is highly complementary with European initiatives and networks (e.g. DIH). Thus, METRICS will contribute to structuring a sustainable network of European robotics stakeholders in the four PAs through the organisation of industry-relevant competitions based on robust evaluations methods.
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Participants (18)
53757 Sankt Augustin
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41039 La Rinconada Sevilla
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1110 Bruxelles / Brussel
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75015 PARIS 15
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70000 Bucharest
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EH14 4AS Edinburgh
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91120 Palaiseau
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75007 Paris
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26121 Oldenburg
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20133 Milano
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85000 La Roche Sur Yon
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12618 Tallin
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56127 Pisa
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33100 Tampere
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20122 Milano
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BS16 1QY Bristol
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50121 Florence
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NG7 2RD Nottingham
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